Recording Demo Animation sharp weapon--flash Cam

In advocating research-oriented learning and independent learning today, when teachers to students to teach a computer skills, can be made in advance to make good demo courseware to enable students to learn independently. Here, I recommend Flash Cam, a very good software for making demo courseware. It can record the operation of the screen as a Flash animation file, through the export of animation files, you can produce a very good demonstration of teaching courseware.

General steps for recording animations

1. Download and install Flash cam, open flash cam, pop up the window shown in Figure 1.

2. Click the "file → new" option, and then pop the new Movie dialog box, set the capture range to 1024x768, and click (Next). At this point, Flash Cam's main window will be automatically reduced to an icon, displayed in the lower right corner of the taskbar.

3. Computer skills to learn the content of the specific operation, when Flash cam will automatically each mouse action actions are recorded.

4. After recording, double-click the Flash cam icon in the lower right corner of the taskbar, pop up the main window and stop the screen capture.

5. Export captured images to a consistent SWF file: Click the file → export option, and then pop up the dialog shown in Figure 2. Select the Movie option, click (next), given the path and file name that the SWF file holds, and click Save.

Add "Mouse Click Box"

To highlight a specific procedure, you can use the Insert menu to add captions, highlight boxes, and mouse click boxes to the movie. Here, the author only describes how to add "Mouse click Box" in the animation.

In the Flash Cam main window, double-click to open the frame you want to add the mouse click box. Click the Insert → click box option, and then a click box appears in the current frame, and the click box is resized and dragged to where you want to operate. Click the (Preview) button in the toolbar, and in the browser, move the mouse to the "click box" position, and the mouse pointer becomes a "hand" shape, and the animation continues to play only after you click the mouse.